We do not want to attack Britain, say expat jihadists fighting in Syria

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Duncan Gardham

Published at 12:01AM, November 22 2013

A group of British jihadists fighting with an al-Qaeda-linked group in Syria
have been recorded speaking of their willingness to give up their lives to
make it an Islamic state.

In the recording made by a Muslim journalist operating in the region, the
young men said that they had no regrets about leaving Britain eight months
earlier to join the uprising against President Assad but they claimed that
fears of their returning to launch an attack in Britain had been overstated.

The men were fighting as part of a foreign legion at Atmeh in Northern Syria,
near the Turkish border.